Foot Facts

  • Each foot is made up of 26 bones, more than 150 ligaments an intricate network of muscles, nerves and blood supply.
  • The average person will take 10,000 steps per day.  Therefore in a typical life time you will walk more than 4 times round the planet (115,000 miles).
  • Feet contain approximately 250,000 sweat glands that excrete about half a pint of water per day.
  • Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci called the feet "A masterpiece of engineering, and a work of art".
  • 75% of all British people will suffer from a foot problem in their life time.
  • Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon with his left foot.